Electrical scooters have taken cities by storm. The scooters are loved by many, but are also the root of controversy. I myself am an avid user of the scooters, they are easy to use and they have saved me quite some time. Most of the scooter companies have easily accsesible APIs where they share the location data of each their scooters. I have collected data for some weeks on scooters in Oslo, and we will now try to get an overview and see what we can reveal about the use of them
An explanation of how to connect to the different APIs can be found in the following github repository. https://github.com/ubahnverleih/WoBike
The Enturs endpoint was also used, and its documentation can be found on the following site. https://developer.entur.org/pages-mobility-docs-scooters
We first plot a sample of the positions over maps from Kartverket (https://www.kartverket.no/data/) and from openstreetmapdata (https://osmdata.openstreetmap.de/data/land-polygons.html) getting: